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November
22, 2000
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The Twister
Gary Kayye,
CTS
I want to know who is the person that thinks it's so funny to turn the seat belt buckle backwards in rental cars? You know what I'm talking about. If you've rented a car anywhere in the past 12 months, you've gotten a car where the seat belt twister has actually taken the time to twist the seat belt buckle so that it's backwards.
What's the big deal?
Well, I guess in the grand scheme of things what to do about the problem caused by #%&@(! people in Florida unable to read instructions is more important, but I can't take it any more. I am sick and tired of having a twisted seat belt lapping across my chest and midsection because some jokester making $4.50 an hour at the local rental car depot thinks it's funny to do this.
Ok, I know I'm not the only one out there that's had this happen to them. Your flight's late, your rental car company's taken your name off the list as a no-show, and you hang out in line awaiting a new contract to rent a car at a bloated rate of $55 per day (which equates to $69.40 when you add in the gas tax, use tax, airport tax and handling fees) and hope it's not a car that seemed to have
last been driven by the one guy that used the smoker's patch for three years and still couldn't stop. When you finally get to the car and load it up and hop in on the burgundy pleather, you find that twister's been there. In fact, he's probably lurking around the corner dressed in his AVIS red or Hertz gold jump suit chewing chaw and smirking as you attempt to keep the belt from scratching your neck as you drive off.
I'm serious. We need to do something about this NOW. If we don't, you can't imagine what's next. Steering wheels with sticky stuff, seats with one sprint popped in just the wrong place, or worse, car doors that don't stay open without you holding them.
I'm telling you, it's a conspiracy!
Gary Kayye is Principal of Kayye Consulting a firm that specializes in providing marketing consulting, telephony integration and training development to the professional audiovisual industry. He spent 12 years at Extron and AMX as VP of Sales and Marketing before founding his own firm. He can be reached at www.kayye.com or via e-mail at gkayye@kayye.com. He is also the volunteer chairman of the PETC. The views expressed in this article are solely the author's and do not represent the positions of any organization to which he belongs.
Gary Kayye
is Principal of Kayye Consulting a firm that specializes in providing
marketing consulting, telephony integration and training development
to the professional audiovisual industry. He spent 12 years at Extron
and AMX as VP of Sales and Marketing before founding his own firm. He
can be reached at www.kayye.com or
via e-mail at gkayye@kayye.com.
He is also the volunteer chairman of the PETC. The views expressed in
this article are solely the author's and do not represent the positions
of any organization to which he belongs.
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